Mouse wheel scroll does not work; only scrollbar works

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jan 10, 2026 by ndycode Closed Jan 17, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Title
Mouse wheel scroll does not work; only scrollbar works

What version of Codex is running?
0.80.0

What subscription do you have?
ChatGPT Pro

Which model were you using?
GPT 5.2 Codex xhigh

What platform is your computer?
Windows 11 25H2

What issue are you seeing?
The mouse wheel scroll button does not scroll in Codex. Scrolling only works when I drag or click the scrollbar on the right side.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Open Codex.
Open a page or view with enough content to scroll.
Try to scroll using the mouse wheel.
Nothing happens.
Drag the scrollbar on the right side and scrolling works.

What is the expected behavior?
Mouse wheel scrolling should scroll the page normally, the same as other apps.

Additional information
None.

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3 Comments

ndycode · 7 months ago

Requesting label: bug

etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

Thanks for reporting. Some follow-up questions:

Are you using WSL?
Which terminal emulator are you using?
Do you have the experimental tui2 enabled?

etraut-openai contributor · 7 months ago

Closing because of lack of response. If you're still seeing this, please provide additional details.